Travel Blogs from Yaroslavl, Russian Federation

... in their belief that Crimea certainly is more Russian than Ukrainian and that they have the right to come back into the RussianFederation. It was very interesting to hear them speak, and to realise that our media, certainly only gives one side of the ...

... chain oiler does not work more. Tomorrow must necessarily look that I can make a small service and therefore go to Yaroslavl. But the petrol is cheap: 1 liter = 1 CHF! ********************** Mit Sankt Petersburg verlasse ich den bisherigen nördlichsten ...

... so far... Nat and I went in different directions from Yekaterinburg. So, I had a cabin full of drunk Russian men all to myself...YAY!!?????... Endless remarks about how beautiful I am (ehhh...gag...), about why I'm not married, and ...

... Golden Ring cities, founded in 1010. It was named after Prince Yaroslavl the Wise who is on the Russian 1000 ruble note. Yaroslavl is a city of scientists and students and a centre of the engineering, chemical, textile and processing ...

From Rostov we drove to Yaroslavl and after having a guided tour of the city seeing the Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, Church of Elijah the Prophet and the Annunciation Cathedral we had a late lunch. When I say late lunch then that ...

... as the first six years earlier. The itinerary on this cruise was as follows: 4-nights in Moscow, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Petrozavodsk, Kizhi, Mondrogi, and 4-nights in St Petersburg. MOSCOW: History Museum: Inside St Basil's ...

SATURDAY: SOOBOTA Weather: Fog. Rain - clearing. 16-21 We arrived in Yaroslavl, a Golden Ring city, on a very special holiday, the birthday of the city. Today the community celebrated 1003 years since it was founded. It certainly was a change for us as ...

... around noon we arrived in Uglich, one of Russia's Golden Ring cities. As I mentioned yesterday, we are not able to sail to Yaroslavl so the cruise company arranged for us to be bussed there today. We boarded the busses around 2:00 for the 1-1/2 hour bus ...

... (Oct - May). We were not aware of that and couldn't go into most of the churches Ok, here is more about the actual trip. Yaroslavl turned out to be lovely, just as I had heard from tons of people before going. We got to Yar around 12 pm on a Saturday and ...

... that over and check our budgets. We should have enough cash. Guides accept pounds so it was lucky we brought some with us.
Russian language learning as well today. Just a few phrases but nothing very easy in the language. In the end the guide was ...

More card games lost by Nihar, more connect four games lost by Aneri... An awkward goodbye to Mikel aka rail travel guide. New friends made with father and son from Netherlands (bribed by a beer).... We haven't talked ...

We awoke this morning to our last day on the Golden Ring with a visit to the local Kremlin. It's fairly small, but quite beautiful as our driver recommended. You could probably visit it all in about an hour, but one of the things we enjoyed about this ...

... city-wide celebration later in the day. And, with a population of 600,000 there are a lot of people to congregate. Yaroslavl is a manufacturing city. They have shoe, cigarette, liquor, printing, tire and oil plants here along with numerous breweries. ...

... labor of GULAG prisoners. Our volkswalk this morning was led by our city guide, Alexey. One thousand years ago, Prince Yaroslavl the Wise killed a sacred bear with his battleaxe and founded the town of Yaroslavl. Our walk took us to the ...

This morning began with quite an overcast sky with some mist over the water. The weather was a little chillier to begin with so I decided it would be a jeans day. Almost as soon as I left the room we came upon The Rybinski Lock which actually has two ...

... initially dancing together and then inviting various gentlemen in the tour group to dance. Well I guess I am a gentlemen as two of the lovely daughters asked me to dance. We finished up the tour in Yaroslavl with a visit to the Transfiguration ...

... as I nursed my hangover from drinking shots of vodka with the local staff on the boat! This morning we have docked in Yaroslavl, a beautiful city on the Volga! I will be touring the Residence of Russian Maslenitsa! I am enjoying sitting on my balcony ...

... hundreds of people who come to see one of the nature's miracles: a lot of scum, empty bottles and other waste that a lot of russian people LOVE to leave. That is really disappointing and makes me a bit ashamed of my country for that. But anyway, it STILL ...

... Discover Magazine that procrastinators are disorganized, not very dutiful, and are probably impulsive. Yup. Fits me.
Yaroslavl will celebrate its millennium anniversary in 2 years. Its most fascinating sight is the Church of St. ...